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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2021
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Rumen Iliev, Millbrae, CA (US);
Kent Lyons, Los Altos, CA (US);
Charlene C. Wu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yanxia Zhang, Foster City, CA (US);
Yue Weng, San Mateo, CA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for selecting a channel of communication based on a type of thinking employed by a user for a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining that a user is employing System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking for the task based on one or more properties of the task, one or more properties of the user, and a state of the user based on physiological response data from one or more physiological sensors monitoring the user, and implementing a channel of communication to utilize for the task that corresponds to a determined type of thinking the user is employing for the task.